Trekking
Socotra is has beutful part of treeking , and many tourists are choosing Socotra as an excellent destination for trekking and hiking, There are some well-known trekking trails on the island of Socotra and some needs to use camels to carry your camping equipment . Haghier mountains have many trekking paths for people with different levels of walking experience. Depending on the time of your visit, Socotra Travel-tours will advise you favourite treks such as wadis with natural water pools after the monsoon season or climbing the highest mountain Skand to cool down in the hottest part of the year.
On Socotra, there are no marked walking trails. Only Guides from local villages are hired to lead you on paths visible olny to them through charming landscapes. The fees for such guiding services go to the guide’s village to support the whole community. Most of the services provided by local villagers are based on the benefit sharing principle.
You can choose various treks depending on your strength. Socotra travel-tours offer seven day, six days five days four days three day and two days trekking package. crossing the whole island through wadis, canyons and mountains from the North to the South. May you be not such a kind of walker, you can go for easy one/two hour treks to Ho the best times of trekking is start from the middle of October up to April.mhil, Hoq cave and many other beautiful spots.
Here are some Great places on Socotra for Trekking:
- Skand peak and return to ecocampsite (6 hours) difficult
- Skand ecocampsite – wadi Ayhaft (whole day) difficult
- Hadibo – wadi Ayhaft (3 hours) easy
- Deneghen – south (5 days) with camels difficult
- Amak – Deneghen (5 days) ) with camels difficult
- Deneghen – Momi (5 days) with camels easy,
- Deneghen – Skand – Firmhin – Dirhor Canyon (3 days) with camels difficult, big differences in altitude
- Hoq cave (3 hours incl. visit to the cave) easy
- wadi Shifa – Homhil (1 hour) easy.
Trekking with camels
For tthose who loves trekking with nature, you can hire a camel that will carry your luggage so that you can fully enjoy beautiful landscapes and views. Camels are usually used for carrying things to those who trekks for more than three days , even you can ride one if interested and for life experence. On Socotra, camels are used rather than donkeys because of the extent of load they are able to carry walking on the montains and because the terrain is more suitable for them.
Camels can be rented just outside Hadibo for a trek from the northern coast to the south.
